It takes four days to reach Irkutsk Station, more than 5,000 kilometres away from Moscow. With its traditional homes, decorated with delicate lace-like wood trim, the capital of East Siberia is ...

The waters of Russia’s Lake Baikal are contaminated with high levels ... of microplastics in the water of the world’s largest and oldest freshwater lake is of the same order of magnitude ...

Lake Baikal is the world’s deepest lake and the world’s largest drinking water reservoir, containing about 20% of the globe’s drinking water. The lake was included in UNESCO’s World ...

In January, the Chinese company AquaSib started to build a water-bottling plant on Russia’s Lake Baikal, which holds the largest volume of freshwater on Earth. It’s considered one of the clearest ...